A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

You have no replicate

There is no reason to feel embarrassed, Krysta.""Easy for you to say! You weren't caught mentally checking out my package!"~ Étienne and Krysta

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.